The Pig’s Ear and the Norfolk Arms

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“It is scary to recall a Britain that had a drinking out culture without an eating out one”

For your consideration this week: a pair of gastropubs. Now, whenever I write about these I get complaints about how “gastropub” isn’t a proper word, and how they are neither proper restaurants nor proper pubs, and I’m just a slave to marketing hype, and it’s all just a passing fad, and this internet thing will never catch on, and whatever happened to waiters in bow ties who knew how to condescend to a guest, and it’s time for a proper re­assessment of the gastronomic vernacular… and to all of this I say: balls. I’m just here for the beer. And